Chapter 63: Raiding the Dragon's Territory
After experiencing the baptism of cannonballs, the Evil Dragon Park, which was barely called magnificent, has become a ruined wall.
The dragon's tall building, modeled after the Chambord Islands amusement park, was also shattered by naval shells, but it still stood still with its solid steel skeleton.
Galen, Nami, and Wallace were now walking in this "dangerous building".
Aaron was very interested in possessions, and his greedy nature made him cautious in hiding money that did not match his own wisdom.
Even though Nami had been a cadre of the Dragon Pirates for six years, she didn't know where Aaron's treasure was.
However, in the face of Nami's professional skills as a thief cat, the treasures that Aaron hid are not too difficult to find.
Ah Long ruled over twenty villages in the surrounding seas, and the amount of wealth he had accumulated over the years was extremely objective.
Galen followed Nami around the dragon's territory twice, and he felt as if he was wandering into the lair of the dragon of the West, and he was blinded by all kinds of treasures.
But Galen didn't take the money, not even Nami, who loved money.
Nami just called all the villagers of Cocoa West Village.
The Evil Dragon Park suddenly became lively:
The villagers' faces flushed with abnormal excitement, and one by one their eyes were shining brightly, rushing into the territory of the evil dragon that they once regarded as the tiger's den in Longtan, and panting and carrying out a lot of the dragon's treasure.
Not necessarily when fighting evil dragons, but when you divide the treasure, the more people you have, the more you have, the more you have.
Under Galen's slightly shocked gaze, the dragon's treasure trove that had to be shoveled by an excavator took less than two minutes before it was emptied by the villagers.
The villagers were still energetic after moving their belongings, and they set their sights on the other objects in the Evil Dragon Park - weapons, furniture, ornaments, and even carpets.
Figures carrying belongings kept shuttling between the ruins, and the excited shouts came and went, and the ruins suddenly became very lively.
Galen's eyes suddenly became strange when he looked at the villagers.
Nami, who was standing on the side, was sensitive to the change in the expression on Galen's face, and the faint disgust was very obvious on Galen's face, who didn't know how to hide his emotions.
"Galen?"
Nami approached Galen's side with some concern, and asked straight to the point:
"Do you have any prejudice against the villagers in my hometown?"
"Prejudice?"
Galen pondered for a moment, but still couldn't help but say what he thought in his heart:
"I just think they didn't dare to resist when they were oppressed by the dragon, and they only knew that the burden of saving the village was put on you as a girl."
"Now that the dragon is dead, they have unceremoniously come to share the fruits of victory."
"It's too much..."
Galen thought of some very unkind words.
But in order to take care of Nami's emotions, Galen didn't say it directly, he knew that Nami treated those villagers as relatives.
Nami still understood what Galen meant, and she opened her mouth to defend the villagers:
"This money was originally squeezed out of them by the evil dragons."
"I'm just giving them back."
"And..."
Nami's voice became a little muffled:
"They've resisted."
"I call myself a 'traitor', but I have clashed with the fishmen several times in order to take me back from the dragon."
"Belmel wasn't the only victim all these years."
Galen listened with some fascination, and his impression of the villagers of Cocoa West Village gradually improved a little.
"And yes!"
Nami quickly dispelled the bad memories in her mind, and chuckled again:
"I'm not a weak woman!"
"In this village, no one can compare to me in physical skills alone."
"I'm the hope of the whole village!"
Galen nodded slightly, agreeing with Nami's opinion.
And the vigorous anti-local tyrant movement in the Evil Dragon Park has also come to an end for the time being, and the legacy of the evil dragon has finally been looted.
However, to Galen's surprise, the villagers did not move their treasures to their homes, but instead gathered their belongings in the square of the dragon's territory.
Then they put down the valuable belongings from their bodies one by one and put them neatly together.
And the sheriff Ah Jian was holding a small notebook and standing in front of the dazzling pile of treasures and carefully counting.
"Don't they bring the money home?"
Galen asked, somewhat curious.
"The dragon's money is not stolen from one of our villages, and after collecting it, it will definitely be distributed to other villages!"
Nami said in a tone that should be taken for granted:
"How can I just move the money home?"
After fully understanding what Galen meant, Nami said with some puff:
"Galen!"
"You can't help but think too badly of people!"
"Haha..."
Galen smiled a little awkwardly, and felt a lot in his heart.
"Humph!"
Nami snorted softly, and turned back to the tall building:
"I'm going to find the ledger of the Dragon Pirates and give money to the other victims!"
Galen did not want to be left alone, so he followed closely; And Wallace, the accompanying reporter, was also faithfully behind Galen.
The Dragon Pirates are full of five big and three thick fishmen, and Nami has always been in charge of the brain-wielding case work of the ledger on weekdays.
Nami climbed several floors in quick succession, navigated the hallway, and finally reached the door of a room.
Her figure suddenly stopped.
"Why don't you leave?"
Galen asked, somewhat strangely, as he stepped forward.
Nami didn't answer, but Galen saw a slight tremor on her thin shoulders.
Galen realized something.
He didn't say much, just reached out and opened the door.
There was a strange smell in my face, a terrible smell of pen, ink, paper, and poor air.
The furnishings inside are very simple, just a writing desk, a chair, a lamp...
There were also stacks of papers that filled the room, each one tall for a person.
Seeing these mountains of paper, Nami's expression became even more gloomy.
Galen was awakened by this shocking scene and remembered a long time-
He knew that these were not ordinary pieces of paper, but Nami's charts of the East China Sea drawn under Aaron's coercion.
Drawing nautical charts is not a job that Nami hates, on the contrary, her dream is to draw charts of the whole world.
But the charts in front of her were not born from Nami's dreams, but instead became the embodiment of her nightmares.
Galen gently put his hand on Nami's shoulder, and said in a deep voice:
"It's all gone."
Nami's trembling body suddenly stabilized.
After a brief silence, Nami nodded heavily, "Yes! ”
That cheerful smile bloomed on her face again.
"I'm going to burn it!"
Galen looked at the charts and said with a serious face.
"Why?"
Nami asked, somewhat surprised:
"Obviously you... You don't even know what those things are. ”
"No need to know."
Galen said in a very bold tone:
"Since you're not happy here, I'll burn it."
Nami's face flushed slightly, and she just quietly turned her head away.
Galen strode over to the charts, and then was slightly stunned.
He turned back to Wallace and asked, "Did you bring a lighter?" ”
"No, I don't smoke."
Wallace replied dryly.
"Uh..."
Galen, who had just finished his handsome lines, was a little embarrassed, so he had to turn around and go out: "I'll borrow a fire." ”
With that, Galen hurried out of the room.
And Nami just stared blankly at Galen's departing back, and the smile on the corner of her mouth quietly added a little bit of happiness.
Wallace was very amusemented not to disturb Miss Nami's mood, and bored went into the room, picked up a random chart, and browsed it casually.
His nonchalant expression suddenly became serious, and his gaze was completely fixed on the chart.
Wallace casually pulled out a few more charts and looked at them, and the interest in his eyes intensified.
"What a priceless treasure!"
Wallace couldn't help but exclaim.
"Huh?"
Nami, who was still immersed in a little emotion, suddenly reacted, and immediately turned her head and asked, "Treasure?" Where is it?! ”
Wallace waved a few charts in his hand: "These are the charts!" ”
"Uh..."
Nami's excited expression froze on her face all of a sudden.
After a while, she smiled helplessly: "You don't have to praise me like that, I know I'm a genius." ”
"A genius indeed!"
Wallace said solemnly: "It would be nice to have an ordinary nautical chart on the market that could draw the information of shipping lanes, islands, and boundaries. ”
"And the nautical charts you draw are much more informative: beaches, coasts, seabed landforms, bedrock and sediments on the seabed, flora and fauna in the water, the velocity of ocean currents, the direction of monsoon winds..."
"There is even complex information about uninhabited freshwater islands suitable for replenishment and reefs where you can temporarily rest."
"Of course I know that."
Nami waved her hand nonchalantly.
She was originally a genius charter, and the collection of this information was even more convenient brought by the racial talent of many fish-people - allowing sea creatures to measure marine information was naturally more detailed and reliable.
Nami said with little interest:
"But how do you get money for these charts?"
"Nautical charts are a controlled commodity of the world government, and they are very difficult to sell."
Nami naturally knows the value of these charts:
It is of great significance to an ambitious organization like the Dragon Pirates, and it is useful for sailing on its own, but it is very difficult to sell it for money for a self-employed person like Nami.
"It's really hard to make a move in your hands..."
Wallace smiled and said:
"But my family knows some giants in related industries."
"These charts of the East China Sea are enough to support the existence of a large shipping company."
"Huh?"
Nami's eyes lit up all of a sudden.
What she hated was not the charts themselves, but the dragon that forced her to draw.
After listening to Wallace's words, Nami suddenly changed her mind.
At this time, Galen ran back with a flaming torch in his hand, and raised his hand to burn the charts.
"Ahem..."
Nami stood in front of the stack of charts silently:
"I thought about it, let's keep these charts!"
"It's all painted."